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The essential comforting guide to ageing with wise advice for the highs and lows

The Book About Getting Older

The Golden Rule

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The Golden Rule is part manifesto for better integration and appreciation between generations, and part reflection on a career spent looking after our elders, [. . .] with good humour, sanity, wisdom and quite a few jokes . . . her messages are clear and I’d love to see them headline every statement on health policy . . . [Lucy] offers advice not just on how to live to a ripe old age but also how to enjoy it

Compassionate and wise, it makes for empowering reading

If you are old or care for someone old, or indeed intend to become old one day yourself, please read this beautifully written book. With wisdom, clarity and kindness, Lucy Pollock generously shares what she has learned from caring for elderly people professionally and in her own life. Rich with everyday stories, The Golden Rule will inspire you to think differently about your own ageing and everyone else's.

The impression you have is how much you’d want Pollock as your medical practitioner

Beautiful and wise, filled with characters I know living through situations I recognise, filtered through the kindness of thoughtful storytelling

Kathryn Mannix, author of  With the End in Mind

Lessons in living from a doctor of ageing

We are living longer lives, and have choices now as never before about how we will age. But what will make us happy? What changes, made right now, will help us to flourish as we age? 
 
This book contains the invaluable lessons Dr Lucy Pollock has learnt from over thirty years of working with older people, from tales of loss, to impossible families, and the importance of learning to live with uncertainty. 
 
Medical teams have not always heard the voices of older people or their loved ones. But if we are given power to influence the lives of our future selves, how best shall we use it?

Read the latest book from Dr Lucy Pollock, a wise, compassionate and helpful guide to ageing happily 
 
'The Golden Rule is part manifesto for better integration and appreciation between generations, and part reflection on a career spent looking after our elders, [. . .] with good humour, sanity, wisdom and quite a few jokes' The Times 
'From the first pages, the impression you have is how much you’d want Pollock as your medical practitioner. . . this warm and compassionate book is part reflection, part rallying cry to set in place a better society for older people' Daily Mail 
 
'Beautiful and wise, filled with characters I know living through situations I recognise, filtered through the kindness of thoughtful storytelling' Kathryn Mannix, author of With the End in Mind 
 
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In a society obsessed with staying young, how can we age with confidence? 
 
Today, we are living longer lives, and have choices now as never before about how we will age. 
 
What will make us happy? 
 
What are we frightened of, and what might allay those fears? 
 
What changes, made right now, will help us to flourish as we age? 
 
This book contains lessons Lucy Pollock has learned from thirty years of working with older people and those close to them. It looks at problems that can be fixed with tests and tablets, and problems that require a different sort of medicine. Lucy explains what she has been taught about loss, about impossible families, about becoming older without children, and the important things she has learned about sexuality, race, love and living with uncertainty. 
 
The Golden Rule sets out guiding principles we can all try to live by, in the hope that together we can bring about positive change, and all benefit from a kinder, more compassionate society. 
 
Here is how we may meet our futures with optimism and confidence.

Today, we are living longer lives, and have choices now as never before about how we will age. 
 
What will make us happy? What are we frightened of, and what might allay those fears? What changes, made right now, will help us to flourish? 
 
This book contains lessons I've learned from thirty years of working with older people and those close to them. It looks at problems that can be fixed with tests and tablets, and problems that require a different sort of medicine. I explain what I have been taught about loss, about impossible families, about becoming older without children, and the important things I have learned about sexuality, race, love, and living with uncertainty. 
 
The Golden Rule sets out guiding principles we can all try to live by, in the hope that together we can bring about positive change, and all benefit from a kinder, more compassionate society. 
 
Here is how we may meet our futures with optimism and confidence.

Lucy Pollock has long been grateful for the guidance offered by an early boss, who hoped she would not be offended if he suggested she should specialise in geriatric medicine. Having trained at Cambridge and Bart’s Hospital, Lucy is now a Consultant Geriatrician in Somerset. She has been working with older people for 30 years, and has learned useful things about life from a great many older people.

The Golden Rule

Lessons in living from a doctor of ageing

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